Entrée du Charlemagne modern à Paris accompagné de son ministre
Print
1870-1871 (printed)
1870-1871 (printed)
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Satirical print showing the German emperor Wilhelm I riding triumphantly into Paris on the back of a pig. Alongside him walks Otto von Bismarck. The emperor is wearing a crown and holding a sceptre in his right hand. In the right background is a sign post marked 'Avenue Des Champs-Élysées'. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.
Object details
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| Title | Entrée du Charlemagne modern à Paris accompagné de son ministre (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Hand-coloured lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | 'Entrée du Charlemagne modern à Paris accompagné de son ministre'. Satirical illustration showing the German emperor Wilhelm I riding triumphantly into Paris on the back of a pig. Alongside him walks Otto von Bismarck. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871. |
| Physical description | Satirical print showing the German emperor Wilhelm I riding triumphantly into Paris on the back of a pig. Alongside him walks Otto von Bismarck. The emperor is wearing a crown and holding a sceptre in his right hand. In the right background is a sign post marked 'Avenue Des Champs-Élysées'. Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes. Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Saillant, Edr. rue du Croissant, 5 & 10. Lith. Barousse, à Paris. Entrée du Charlemagne modern à Paris accompagné de son ministre' (Lettered) |
| Gallery label | Anonymous
The Emperor William and his minister Bismarck make progress down the Champs Elysées, the former mounted on a crowned pig. The German troops marched through Paris with great pomp and splendour on 1 March and occupied the mourning city for three days. The event went off without any direct repercussions, although the humiliation felt by the Parisians did much to alienate them yet further from the National Assembly. An ironical comparison is drawn between the new Emperor of Germany, and the Frankish King, Charlemagne, who had been crowned as Holy Roman Emperor more than 1,000 years before.
Lithograph, coloured by hand. E.933-1962(27/05/1971-10/10/1971) |
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| Accession number | E.933-1962 |
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| Record created | February 10, 2009 |
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